“It was panic.” Following the derailment of a funicular in Lisbon, who left sixteen dead and many injured on Wednesday, September 3, a French tourist tells BFMTV that he had lived the scene, from the tram in front of the accidental car.
“When the driver launched the machine, she returned,” said Béatrice, who explains that the funicular in which it was not the one that was resistant, but the opposite came.
“It was the great panic, the French continues. It was panic, everyone cried when we fell.”
“While we went down, it is the other funicular who came from above, who, derailed in one shift, hit the opposite wall with a complete whip,” Béatrice recalls, who was in Lisbon with his spouse.
“Status of agitation”
“I went through the funicular door, among the first people and when I went down, a large cloud of dust arrived (…) I ran, I got up, I got up,” he adds, saying that I listened to a “great boom” and I saw “a lot of scrap”, then an “immediate crowd” around Wagon’s housing.
The tourist evokes people “in a state of astonishment, which is a bit logical.” And to add: “We believe, we look at each other, we squeeze and say that we have missed something huge.”
On Wednesday, at the end of the day, the derailment of an emblematic funicular of Lisbon left sixteen dead, including at least eight foreigners, according to the first elements of the investigation, which gives no more details about the causes of such an accident.
Source: BFM TV
